Articles about: horrible beauty
Disappointing Products: Eight I Don’t Rate
It might have escaped your notice but I try a lot of products. I’m lucky that brands see fit to send some my way, but I direct a lot of my own eurobucks towards feeding my habit, too. Inevitably...
Dastardly Disappointments: 6 Crap Cosmetic Purchases
I usually carefully consider every purchase I make, what with being on a student’s budget. Unfortunately, some products just haven’t worked for me or have been poorly thought out impulse...
Beaut.ie Police: New Packaging But Smaller Amount – Report a Sighting Here!
Recently Anna emailed us about a case of repackaged product, smaller amount, same price. It’s a common theme in the beauty biz, especially with higher end products, where a posh product goes...
Red eyeliner: not trend led, not fashion forward, just GAK. Mary Kate and Ashley show us how horrible it can be
The red eyeliner trend has been floating around for decades. But as it is a particularly horrible look and flattering to practically no one, it tends to be something you see only in the pages of a...
Hairdresser Fear: The Longer I Leave it, The Worse it Gets
D’ya know the way when you (trans=me) haven’t darkened the door of the hairdressers for oh, about a year (forgive me, Estee, I have sinned, and it is actually about 12 months since...
Bare Minerals Pure Transformation Night Treatment Strikes Absolutely The Wrong Note
The big news in Bare Minerals land is the launch of the brand’s first skincare line, simply called ‘Skincare’. Sure, its sister company MD Formulations has been producing...
Call The Cops! What Awful Things Have People Done to Your Products?
The tale of the builder boyfriend who was caught by his Beaut.ie-reading other half slathering her Creme de la Mer on his construction-ravaged hands has gone into legend on the blog but it’s...
Salon Hygiene: Why it Matters (Warning – Gross Pix Inside!)
We’ve talked before about salon hygiene and the perils of double-dipping and yes, we think it’s of huge importance. Salons should be maintaining basic standards as a matter of course...
Pond’s Cold Cream Cleanser Leaves Me Cold
Remember when Kylie swore blind she was giving up that oul’ Botox in favour of her €4.99 tub of Pond’s Cold Cream Cleanser? Most of us didn’t believe a word of it, but that...
Scary Beauty: Pins a Risky Solution to Clumpy Mascara
Clumpy mascara – it’s happened to the best of us. A bad mascara, product buildup on the brush, too many coats and suddenly your lashes are stuck together in big spidery clumps...